Problem is; too many people.

Adios!

Don’t despair too much about the earth itself.  If we last only
a thousand more years but then kaput! it will simply over the
millennia regenerate itself as the earth is not emotionally
attached to us or any living thing really. It is really bigger than
all of us put together.  We and all large and medium large and
small animals and plants even might be gone, but maybe bacteria
that can withstand most anything and the most hardy viruses might
still be around underground in the ocean or someplace, in the arctic
ice that will get the evolution game started all over again. Don’t forget
it took millions of years for us to get here.  The universe probably has
a few million years left if not billions.  We don’t really know exactly how
old it is or how long it will continue.  We might find out before we all get
obliterated.  The cosmologists and astrophysicists are working on it as
we breathe.  Then, just to be as cynical as I can, after that, blip, blip,
blip, it just won’t matter.  What matters is what we do whilst we are here. 
We can be either caretakers or gargoyles.  I sometimes wonder who will
be the last earthperson?  No more books or Scientific American articles
will be written, sob sob

Blue Balloon by Ween

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcoKKb0dnS8

I see her popping for us in potentially much less than one hundred years.

The Glaciers are melting, we are depleting or poisoning the underground water supply. The oceans are warming and growing acidic. We are rapidly deforesting the planet, and that is just the tip of the iceberg really. Maybe the cockroaches will survive.

Don’t forget SarcastiCanuck global warming and natural phenomena
along with mindless wanton killing of the earth’s creatures, including
humans, probably not in 100-200 years but surely within a thousand
it will be a dead planet.  We can go to our sad species graves, some
of us, that we saw and appreciated much beauty. 

Maybe we should start an annual international Howling Day to
pre-mourn in anticipation the demise of the inhabitants of this planet.
I vote for winter solstice.  And on that day a great noise will go up from
a once tiny blue planet turned brown and ugly and shake the universe.

I do believe that extinction is a natural part of life and evolution. Having said that, I also want to make clear that I condemn: 1) fishermen who over-fish our ocean in order to hang on to a job, 2)poachers around the world who should be given long prison sentences or fed to the lions, and 3) Ernist Hemingway wannabes who senslessly hunt endangered species for trophy reasons.

It is so sad what humans do to their world.  The problem with
the extinction of this wonderful animal, the Javan rhino.  The
reason here is the ignorance of the society that makes demands
for its horn.  It is said for “medicinal” reasons.  When this kind of
primitive-practice ignorance is stamped out with education, the
hunting of animals for such self-serving purposes is stopped,
then maybe extinction will no longer be the fault of man.

How ironic these mindless oblivious hunters have rid the world of the
very thing they use for personal gain.  They have done themselves in as
well as the rhino.

Yeah, I stopped eating tuna a long time ago.  There are a lot of conscious
Americans.

What a beautiful animal.

We can’t be reminded too often about this kind of thing. We are in the country which has the most power and influence over whether or not the ecosystem is destroyed and species are wiped out including our own.

It’s not looking good.

Thanks for this!!!